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Westmr.
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aged about Twenty four Years
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on her Oath says she never was Married Rented House
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Charles Day
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lately deceased at
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the
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in Wych Street
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for Two Years at the
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John Lawrence
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late Masters house in
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last and at several different times afterwards at one of which
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times he got her with Child of the Child or Children of which
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she is now Pregnant as aforesaid and that the said
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John
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Sworn this
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Twenty Eighth
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